On the Other Side of Melancholy

The moon will be waiting for you, all the love in the world will be ready when you are.

We can be taken away from ourselves. I work with a man that has an amputated hand from a terrible work accident. It left him wide-eyed traumatized, battered, agoraphobic, and angry. After just a few months of this, his wife presented him with divorce papers. They have four young children together. He said without thinking much of it, “I’ve never seen a …